● The blockchain enabled Letter of Credit (LC) transaction facilitated the shipment between Reliance Industries and Tricon Energy.
● ING Bank issued the LC for Tricon Energy and HSBC India was the advising and negotiating bank for Reliance Industries.
● “This solution is a significant improvement for any organization involved in buying and selling goods internationally, as it truly brings together all parties onto one platform,” - Hitendra Dave from HSBC has said.

● Huobi Global will list Bitcoin Cash SV as BSV and retair BCH as Bitcoin Cash ABC.
● The BSV tokens will be distributed in a 1:1 ratio of pre fork owners of BCH.
● Huobi has ensured the Bitcoin Cash ABC team has set up a checkpoint on the BCH Blockchain to establish a two-way replay protection.

● Tron has been listed on two more Cryptocurrency exchanges.
● These exchanges include Blockport and Scatter.
● Blockport is known to be easy to use and helps bridge traditional finance with virtual currencies using the Euro.
● Scatter is a known platform amongst EOS users, as it is the first wallet where EOS was available in the market.

● Non-fungible tokens (NFT) will not be a part of popular console gaming product the Platstation 4.
● NFT's will be brought to life by Plague Hunters on their RPG game which is a sequel to the previous Plague Road.
● The Blockchain based game will release in the first quarter of 2019 with Nintendo Switch and PC versions in development.

● OKEx settled Bitcoin Cash futures contracts without a warning before Bitcoin's Hard Fork last week.
● This resulted in traders losing, as the contracts were closed at levels which did not reflect the market prices.
● This impacted the trustability of OKEx with many prominent traders wanting to stop dealing with OKEx completely.

● Nano Coin is going against the Cryptocurrency market and is seen to make gains.
● The main reason for spiking is the launch of Nanochina.co which is dedicated to the Chinese Nano community.
● Nano Coin has already been listed in Huoni and is looking at expanding rapidly in China.

● Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance is positive about the Cryptocurrency market growing upwards.
● His main reason was Fidelity Investments getting into the Cryptocurrency space.
● Fidelity Investments has 10 times more assets than Cryptocurrency and so it will help bring in more capital into the Cryptocurrency market.

● Israel has become a major hub for Cryptocurrency.
● The country's first dedicated firm for Cryptocurrency institutional investors called Silver Castle Ltd. launched two Crypto funds.
● The first fund is based on an algorithmic trading system.
● The second fund is fully invested and automated and based on an algorithmic weighted basket of top ten Cryptocurrencies by market cap.

● Veerathai Santiprabhob, the governor of the Bank of Thailand (BoT) has said that a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) will not happen soon.
● According to the governor, CBDC's in Thailand will not occur within the next 3-5 years.
● The main reason cited was the fact that the process of CBDC is not easy and it is very time-consuming.

● Jihan Wu's tweet suggests that he might sell 1 million worth of his Bitcoin SV Cryptocurrency.
● If he does sell it, BCHSV could face a major slump in the short term.
● Overall Bitcoin ABC (BCHABC) is the clear winner of the Bitcoin Cash Hard fork.

● Zeniex, a fairly new South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange has ceased all operations.
● It was in operation for about only five months, and the main issue faced was the development of its ZXG token.
● Compensation has already begun in Ethereum for the ZXG token with holders of other Cryptocurrency in the exchange urged to withdraw them.

● XRP has been in the second position for the longest period in its lifetime.
● Ethereum is facing a fall in its market capitalisation while XRP is seen to pick up in the market with a wider gap between the two.
● XRP's partnership with CIMB in Asia and being listed on Coinbase Custody has helped it soar to success in the last one week.

● Tron has been listed on two more Cryptocurrency exchanges.
● These exchanges include Blockport and Scatter.
● Blockport is known to be easy to use and helps bridge traditional finance with virtual currencies using the Euro.
● Scatter is a known platform amongst EOS users, as it is the first wallet where EOS was available in the market.

● A known congressman of USA and a former presidential candidate Ron Paul asked his Twitter followers to vote on the ideal 10-year investment.
● The options of the vote were Bitcoin, bonds, fiat currency and gold.
● Bitcoin won the vote with 50% of the 80,000 followers voting in favour of it.

● Huobi is working towards gaining political support for Cryptocurrency by setting up a Communist Party committee.
● After China's crackdown on Cryptocurrency Huobi which is of Chinese origin has shifted it's operations to Singapore.
● The Communist Party has favoured Blockchain, and Huobi is now working towards changing their minds of the digital currency.

● The Ex CTO of Ripple Stefan Thomas spoke about his decision on leaving Ripple and working on Coil.
● Coil is a micropayments solution based on Interledger Protocol and Ripple's XRP.
● Thomas worked together with another Ripple intern called Ben Sharifian to help build on interledger.

● The Canadian House Finance Committee has asked the government of Canada to ensure Cryptocurrency is regulated to stop money laundering.
● The Canadian House Finance Committee has suggested Cryptocurrencies to be reviewed during the Crime Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA).
● Cryptocurrency regulation is seen to be increasing in interest around the world.

● Binance's CEO, Chanpeng Zhao has given a chance to the XRP community to shill XRP as much as possible in reply to his tweet about it.
● The major hint given in the tweet is XRP may have a chance of being a base currency on Binance.
● XRP has shown the Crypto world just why it is a force to reckon with prices of XRP rising while the Cryptocurrency market is in the red.

● Erol Yara, the Chairman of the International Business Forum (IBF) has asked Islamic countries to utilize Cryptocurrency.
● The main intention of Yara pushing for Cryptocurrency was the way the American Dollar has been taking control of the world.
● Yara stressed on a Cryptocurrency system being developed which will help international trade among Islamic countries.

● Record-breaking art has been sold on Blockchain with $317,801,250 raised at Christie's auction house in New York.
● Artory is helping in the utilization of permissioned Blockchain to host auction information.
● Artory's private Ethereum Blockchain helped auction off 42 art pieces, and logged information such as sales, final prices, auction dates, item titles, restorations and thefts.

● Estonia has issued more than 900 licenses to Blockchain and Cryptocurrency companies in the last one year.
● The figures prove that the Estonian government are progressing towards a positive Blockchain and Cryptocurrency environment in the country.
● There are in total about 500 licenses given by the Estonian government to Cryptocurrency exchanges and 400 licenses to Crypto wallet services.

● CoinGate is now the official payment processor for Litecoin.
● CoinGate will explore Litecoin's Lightning Network, which is the second layer scaling solution for both Bitcoin and Litecoin.
● The payment processing gateway is one of the largest in the Cryptocurrency market.

● Switzerland's Stock Exchange SIX will be the world's first stock exchange to list a multi crypto based exchange-traded product. (ETP)
● The first multi crypto ETP will be listed under index HODL and it will track five major Cryptocurrencies which are BTC, XRP, ETH, BCH and LTC.
● Each Cryptocurrency will have a certain market share in the ETP with BTC having almost half of the ETP's assets.

● Samourai Wallet has announced Bitcoin transactions without the need of the internet.
● The offline Bitcoin transactions will be carried out through TxTenna device.
● The user has to rely on the goTenna mesh network which is through the TxTenna device.